The new issue of RACER magazine is our annual Speed Issue and that provided us with an excuse to speak with Rick Mears about how a driver analyzes their own performance. How do they know when they're at their absolute best?

The new Managing Director of Officiating (MDO) for IndyCar Officiating Incorporated (IOI) hopes his new position will be the perfect closing chapter to a long career as a well-traveled racing official.

Conveyed with that slow Bolognese drawl, Alessandro Zanardi’s words were a mirror.Punctuated with the animation dancing across his cheeks and eyes, the depths of joy discovered by the Italian during his CART IndyCar Series adventure as he experienced our series and tracks for the first time was projected in the...

"Seabass" won four IndyCar titles and 37 races; in between and after, he's been a superstar in a sports car. What are his highs and lows?

Jim Michaelian wasn’t well-known to fans, but from inside the sport, the forever-long boss of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach was one of our most valued elders. Always present and reassuring, he was our rock, our pulse. We knew things were good because Jim was there. That’s the...

Canadian driver Cliff Hucul, a veteran of three Indianapolis 500 starts in the late 1970s, died Feb. 17 on his farm in his native Prince George, B.C.

It was late in November when I got a DM from an IndyCar fan who’d just spoken with former Indy Racing League entrant Tom Kelley and had some interesting information to share.Along with two partners, Kelley had bought six 2007 Champ Car Panoz DP01s and, in an unbelievable turn, acquired...

Phil Krueger, a veteran of two Indianapolis 500 starts, died Feb. 9 in Indianapolis. He was 74.Krueger, a native of Milwaukee, competed in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” in 1986 and 1988. His best finish was eighth in 1988, completing 196 laps in the No. 97 CNC Systems Sales March-Cosworth...

Race Industry Week closed out its opening day with a powerful and wide-ranging conversation featuring Danny Sullivan – 1985 Indianapolis 500 winner, 1988 CART champion, former Formula 1 driver, broadcaster, steward and lifelong ambassador of the sport. Interviewed by Brad Gillie, Sullivan walked attendees through a remarkable career that spans...

Cristiano da Matta’s life changed in the blink of an eye during a Champ Car test at Road America in the summer of 2006.The 2002 Champ Car champion, who was into the second year of his American open-wheel racing return after an F1 stint with Toyota, was testing with RuSport...